India's mobile phone exports have registered another strong performance, according to a press release by India Cellular & Electronics Association (ICEA). The release stated that smartphone exports crossed an estimated USD 1.8 billion in September 2025, reflecting a year-on-year growth of ove
India's mobile phone exports have surged 127 times in a decade and they grew from Rs 1,500 crore to Rs 2 Lakh crore, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Jitin Prasada informed Lok Sabha in a written reply Wednesday.
India could become a key player in the global electronics manufacturing sector with the help of active participation in the supply chains for manufactured exports, particularly by integrating "backwards" into the value chain, revealed a report from the Centre for Development Studies (CDS).
With a new components policy in place, the country is aiming to increase value addition from the current 15-16 per cent to 40-50 per cent. Mobile phone exports have grown 77 times in the last 10 years.
India's smartphone exports have reached a historic milestone, crossing Rs 2 lakh crore in the previous fiscal year 2024-25, announced Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, during a press conference here on Tuesday.
Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the government is working to broaden the electronic manufacturing ecosystem beyond mobile phones to increase global share in hearables and wearables segment, IT hardware, electronic components, etc.